Increase social and economic equity and improve human well-being through support to participatory forestry and sustainable management of forests and trees in marginal areas.

 

Through its Community Forestry Programme and activities in forestry extension, FAO will promote participatory approaches that enable local people and other stakeholders (particularly the disadvantaged) to be involved in forest planning and management and to derive adequate benefits from this involvement, especially as related to food security. Emphasis will be put on developing an enabling policy and institutional environment for effective locally based management. Continued effort will be made to encourage equity in benefits and decision-making, especially as related to gender